John Hawkins at Right Wing News tells us about a raffle being held by Society of Saint Vincent De Paul.

The grand prize includes 4 days in New York, a $3000 shopping spree, and a meeting with Bill O’Reilly. Heck, third prize is 2 Super Bowl tickets! They’re charging a $100 bucks a pop for the raffle tickets — and of course, the money they make will go to their charity.

So go see John’s post and, as they say, read it all.

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We went downtown yesterday to see what we could see of the filming. This is a setup on Wacker Drive, a vehicle crushed by fallen building parts.

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We saw a bit of filming when we were down on the river. At the water taxi stop (which was not in use this weekend because of the filming) we saw a bunch of actors portraying soldiers fighting and then retreating from something we couldn’t see…

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We also saw Ratchet!

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We saw her yesterday at the Field Museum in Chicago.

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It was a hazy day downtown

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Sorry the start is a bit choppy, I was trying to get the tripod set up correctly.

We participated in two parades today!

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Hubby and Joe Walsh at the Antioch, IL parade.